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Private mushroom Session
Modeled after mushroom therapy protocols used in clinical trials, a private session with Odyssey includes over 12 hours of personalized support from an expert, licensed facilitator. Choose a facilitator from the list below and schedule a complimentary fit call to start today.
private mushroom session process
choose facilitator & book a fit call
To get started, choose a facilitator from the list below and book a complimentary fit call to see if it’s a good fit. Then, begin your preparation!
PREPARATION
2 hourlong sessions
Receive support and guidance around your intentions, goals, and preferences for the msuhroom experience. Build trust, connection, and rapport with your facilitator.
MUSHROOM Session
Experience therapy in a private room at a licensed service center, with a session format inspired by mushroom research protocols. Your facilitator provides warm, non-directive, attentive support throughout.
Integration
2 hourlong sessions
Unpack, explore, and begin to make meaning of your mushroom experience. Receive support and guidance integrating your journey to create lasting positive change in your life.
What’s included
mushroom journey at beautiful, licensed facility
World-class screening & INtake process
comprehensive Preparation and integration program
12-hours of 1:1 time with highly vetted licensed facilitator
premier, lab tested, precisely dosed mushrooms
LIFEtime access to monthly integration circles
why 96% of clients strongly recommend odyssey
The Best in the State
We’ve met with facilitators and service centers from around the state, and chosen only to work with a select few.
Science and Evidence-Based Protocols
The end-to-end Odyssey experience is modeled after best practices used in modern clinical trials and mushroom research studies.
Strong Emphasis on Safety
Safety is our highest priority, embedded in every step from screening and preparation to the mushroom session and integration.
The Odyssey Safety Net
Every Odyssey experience includes lifetime access to monthly group integration circles and our extensive support network. For anyone experiencing challenges that extend beyond their session, we provide up to five additional integration sessions with a facilitator or mental health professsional, at no extra cost.
Our Team
Learn more about our facilitators. If you’re interested in a private mushroom session with a facilitator, click “Book a Call” to schedule a complimentary fit call and see if it’s a good fit.
Frank Larson, M.D.
Frank is a licensed mushroom facilitator who believes we all can achieve wholeness and inner freedom. His medical background gives him the ability to listen for the nuances that make each individual unique, and he uses this expertise to help the therapy traveler in their journey toward true transformation.
Bend, Oregon
Male
$$-$$$
Addiction
Anxiety
Depression
Professionals
Trauma
Alex Kenyon
Alex is a licensed mushroom facilitator, intuitive counselor, and domestic violence and sexual assault prevention advocate in Ashland, Oregon. Shaped by nearly a decade in various mental health and human service agencies, her approach to facilitation is trauma-informed, person-centered, and highly attuned.
Ashland, Oregon
Female
$$-$$$
Anxiety
Depression
Women
Brian Pilecki, Ph.D.
Dr. Brian Pilecki is a clinical psychologist specializing in anxiety disorders such as OCD, generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and panic disorder, in addition to trauma and PTSD. He is also a trainer in mushroom facilitation and an MDMA-assisted therapy study therapist.
Portland, Oregon
Male
$$$-$$$$
Anxiety
Depression
OCD
Trauma
LGBTQ+
Michelle Roberts, Ph.D.
Dr. Michelle Roberts is a licensed psychotherapist, author, researcher and professor. She specializes in the treatment of relational trauma and co-occurring disorders, having served hundreds of women in her private practice.
Portland, Oregon
Female
$$$-$$$$
Professionals
Women
John-Paul Crowe
JP is a licensed mushroom facilitator whose practice is informed by a mindfulness-based approach to facilitation work. He has an open-hearted style, providing a calm environment and a non-judgmental presence, which allows for deep and transformational experiences.
Bend, Oregon
Male
$$-$$$
Anxiety
Addiction
Depression
Life transitions
Spiritual exploration
Amanda Gerace
Amanda is a mother, death/grief doula, nature-lover, dreamer, massage therapist and experienced mushroom facilitator. She draws from over 21 years of experience in the healing arts to support transformative mushroom journeys.
Portland, Oregon
Female
$$-$$$
Creativity
End of life
Depression
Grief and loss
Women
Laurent Picard
Laurent is a Portland-based firefighter and paramedic who has worked for Portland Fire & Rescue for 28 years. His mushroom facilitation work is informed by his own powerful healing journeys, training in Somatic Experiencing, and 20 years experience as a member of PF&R’s peer support team.
Portland, Oregon
Male
$-$$
First-responders
Depression
David Kahl
David combines his experience building inclusive organizations, executive coaching, and over 25 years of meditation practice to guide individuals and groups through transformative therapeutic-mushroom experiences.
Portland, Oregon
Male
$$$-$$$$
Leaders
Professionals
LGBTQ+
Life transitions
Carrie McMullin, Psy.D.
Dr. Carrie McMullin is both a licensed psychologist and a licensed mushroom facilitator. She has a 20 year career in mental health focusing on providing client-centered care for a wide range of concerns including depression, anxiety, and trauma.
Portland, Oregon
Female
$$$-$$$$
Anxiety
Depression
Trauma
LGBTQ+
River Jenkins
River is a licensed mushroom facilitator, therapeutic researcher, harm reductionist, and integration specialist with over a decade of experience in the field. Her passion for holding non-judgemental, non-pathologizing space for clients as they explore and discover their resilience and inner wisdom guides her practice as a mushroom facilitator.
Bend, Oregon
Female
$$-$$$
Grief and loss
LGBTQ+
BIPOC
Spiritual exploration
Trauma
Paul Choi, M.D.
Dr. Paul Choi is a psychiatrist passionate about helping others find happiness, meaning, and peace. A graduate of Stanford Medical School, Paul integrates mindfulness, meditation, and mushroom therapies to help clients break free from limiting beliefs and past traumas. His holistic approach fosters deep healing and lasting transformation.
Portland, Oregon
Male
$$$$+
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Caroline Holm
Caroline Holm, a state-licensed mushroom facilitator, cultivates a safe, compassionate space for clients to explore new perspectives and process emotions. Her approach supports clients navigating loss, anxiety, depression, parental wounds, blocks and other challenges, empowering them to reconnect with their innate ability to create meaningful and lasting change.
Corvallis, Oregon
Female
$-$$
Anxiety
Grief and loss
Creativity
End of life
Women
Josh Goldstein
Josh is a leading mushroom facilitator with 15 years in therapeutic settings and nearly 30 years of personal plant medicine practice. His compassionate, grounded approach supports deep healing, exemplified by his pioneering work, including guiding the first legal mushroom therapeutic ceremony for veterans.
Bend, Oregon
First-responders
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An exceptional facilitator is one of the most important elements of a safe and effective guided mushroom experience. It’s essential for you to feel completely safe, comfortable, and at ease throughout. You should trust, at a deep level, that this person is supporting your process because they have your best interests at heart.
Odyssey’s facilitators are carefully selected based on their background, experience, training, and approach. We look first and foremost for facilitators with a strong, warm, compassionate, and wise presence. We’re proud to say that our team is highly professional, deeply passionate, and exceptionally skilled at what they do.
Highly vetted
Each facilitator on our team has been intentionally selected according to carefully considered criteria. We've interview dozens of facilitators from around the state and chosen only a select few.
Experienced
Odyssey’s facilitators embody high levels of purposeful expertise, and include some of the most experienced and well-trained in the state of Oregon.
the family test
Before bringing on any facilitator at Odyssey, we ask ourselves, “Would we send a close family member to work with this person?” We aim for the answer for every one of our facilitators to always be a resounding “Yes!”
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